Lace-fastener.



S.i LOE.

. LAGE FASTENEB.

ArrLxouIol FILED 'nl zo, 1907.

907,257." Patented 1300.22, 190s.

.UNITED STAT@ PATENT oEEioE.

SYVER LOE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

LACE-FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYvER LOE, a citizen of the United States, residingat Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements inLace-Fasteners; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved lace fastener forshoes, gloves and other articles having separable flaps or parts thataie connected by lacings or strings, and to this end the inventionconsists of the novel devices and arrangement of plarts hereinafterdescribed and define d in the c aim.

The subject of the present invention isV illustrated inthe accompanyingdrawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout theseveral views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing apair of my improved lace fasteners applied to the upper edge portions ofthe shoe flaps. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing one of the improveddevices removed from the shoe flap. Fig. 3 is a section taken on theline x3 :c3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line x4 x4of Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1, the numeral 1 indicates the flaps of a mans shoe, the samehaving the usual lace hooks 2.

The lacing or shoe string is indicated by the numeral 3.

The entire fastener is stamped from a single piece of thin sheet metal,and the body 4 thereof is preferably given an a proXimately bell-shapedoutline in plan, as fiest shown in Fig.. 2, and it is provided with aU-shaped slit 5 that forms a string clamping tongue 6. The said clampingtongue 6 is left attached to the said body portion 4 at one end, but ispressed laterally so that it diverges slightly Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed May 20, 1907.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Serial No. 374,570.

from said body portion, thereby forming a clamping crotch that isadapted to receive the string or lace 3. To prevent cutting of thestring the tongue 6 is dished or curved in cross section, and the sidesof the U-shaped body portion are dished or curved in an oppositedirection, as best shown in Fig. 4. The body portion 4 is provided withthree projecting prongs 7 that are adapted to be pressed through theshoe flap and to be clenched on the inner side thereof, thereby securelyfastening the device in working position. As shown, one of these prongs7 is located at the intermediate bowed portion of the body 4, and theother two are located at the extremities of the sides thereof.

The manner in which the lace or string may be secured by the fastenersis illustrated in Fig. 1, it being of course evident that the string maybe clamped and securely held when tightly drawn into the divergingcrotch formed between the tongue 6 and the sides of the body 4.

The device described may be stamped from a sheet of thin metal andpressed into the form shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, ready for applicationto the shoe flap or other device, at very small cost. In practice thedevice has beenfound highly efficient for the purposes had in view.

What I claim is:

A lace fastener comprising a thin metal body having side portions andhaving pressed therefrom but secured thereto at one end a clampingtongue that is dished or curved in cross section and is convex on itsinner side, and the side portions of said body being reversely dished incross section, and the said body having projecting barbs, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SYVER LOE.

Witnesses:

H. D. KILGORE, MALIE HoEL.

